July 2017

Hudson to home

We’ve grounded. Not a rudder-shattering grounding like our first night out last November. That one threatened to also shatter dreams of our sailing adventure. And not one of our many soft-bottom ICW and Bahamian groundings that caused us to frantically set to work to free Ariose, and if not successful, to resign ourselves to wait for the tide to do the work for us. Those ones caused no harm. Not even our unfortunately apt, emotionally explosive book-end to our adventure grounding on the last day of our journey. The painfully familiar sound and feel of keel on rock mid-Lake Ontario… but I’m getting ahead of myself on that one. Yes we’ve grounded, and it’s a momentous one, but this time, READ MORE

New York City – here we come!

 What’s that we see as we look out over Ariose’s stern? Looks like lots of milestones marking our return journey. We’ve made our way back to the northern end of the Bahamas, then accomplished another Gulf Stream crossing, the Intracoastal Waterway was behind us, and now, unbelievably, New York City lay ahead.

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View 2 of the ICW (cont’d)

>Shirley

This Ariose Note picks up where we left off last post, sharing some of the highlights of our northward journey on the IntraCoastal Waterway. We’ve seen the ICW through new eyes as we head homeward. We were saying that there had been only a couple of  minor “incidents” marking our month on this leg, but also one rather frightening event, and that’s where we left off.READ MORE

View 2 of the ICW

>Shirley

We’ve completed our northward journey on the IntraCoastal Waterway (ICW), a leg of our adventure that we were not looking forward to, but much to our surprise, actually enjoyed. This 2^nd look was definitely a “through new eyes” experience, despite READ MORE